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There is a prizing part designed in the corner, which can help to position and remove formwork easily.
The plywood is screwed on from the back when connecting frame and plywood, so the surface of the finished concrete is perfect.
The formwork series are a complete system with a full set of accessories, and can be set up flexibly according to project demand.
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-The frame is highly strengthened, and the wall formwork can bear lateral pressure 60 KN/m2 while the column formwork can bear 80 KN/m2.
-As a standardized system, it is flexible to assemble , wood batten can be filled to satisfy the need f of non-standard size.
-The adjustable steel clamp is convenient to use, and can hold tightly.
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.We can ensure the quality of the vinyl banner and avoid extra expenses for customers.
.We can provide you the professional design team.
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. If printing required, please advise asap because the whole set need much more time to complete.
. Please DO check goods when courier knocks your door and contact us asap if any issue.
3) What about of our after-sale service?
. Response will be carried out in 24hours after receiving any complain or request.
. Steel Frame Formwork GK120 cost can be refund after order is confirmed.
. If the products are not based on the requirements, there will be the relevant compensations made for you.
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Normally small orders, it just 10-15 business days to arrive your hand; When comes to the customs declaration, it may need 7 days.
Other mass qty of Steel Frame Formwork , we send them out by sea or by air to sea port or air port to save some shipping freight for our customers. By ocean, it may need 45~60days, by air, it may need 25~40days.
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|Morethia (1)
A small Australian lizard, the lined firetail skink (Morethia ruficauda) is named after its bright tail colouration, with its scientific name, ruficauda, meaning 'red tail' (1). Its hips and hind limbs are also deep red, while the rest of its head and body is boldly marked with clear white to gold stripes on an otherwise glossy black background (2) (3). These stripes extend in front of the eyes and converge on the snout (2) (4).
In many other Morethia species, males develop a red wash on the chin and throat during the breeding season (2) (4) (5). However, the lined firetail skink has not been recorded with this colouration (4). Juveniles of this genus usually have a bright red tail as hatchlings and lose the red colouration as they grow (4) (5), but a few species, including the lined firetail skink, are exceptions in that they retain this colour into adulthood (5).
Like other skinks, the lined firetail skink has a fairly elongate, roughly cylindrical body and smooth, glossy scales (5) (6). Its tail is quite long and tapering, and can be shed and regenerated if the skink is caught by a predator (5). The limbs of this species are quite well developed, and like other Morethia species the lined firetail skink has a fused lower eyelid which forms a clear 'spectacle' that covers the eye (2) (4).
Two subspecies of lined firetail skink are recognised (1) (2) (4). Morethia ruficauda exquisita, also known as the exquisite fire-tail skink, is distinguished from Morethia ruficauda ruficauda by the light stripe running along the top of its back (4).
Relatively little is currently known about the biology and behaviour of the lined firetail skink. However, like other Morethia skinks it is active during the day and is an alert, swift-moving species which lives on the ground (2) (4) (5) (7). Most small skinks feed on insects and other small arthropods (5) (6), and the lined firetail skink is known to eat ants (3).
The function of the lined firetail skink's bright red tail is not fully understood, but it has been suggested that the skink uses it as a lure, wiggling it backwards and forwards to attract insect prey (3) (4). However, it is thought more likely that it is used to distract predators, drawing their attention to the bright tail, which is expendable, and away from the skink's vulnerable head and body (4) (5) (7). It is also possible that the bright tail is waved as a form of communication (7).
The lined firetail skink lays around one to three eggs in each clutch (4), and like other Morethia species it probably breeds in the dry season (8).
The lined firetail skink is found only in Australia, where it occurs mainly in the northwest and centre of the continent (2) (4) (5). This species has been recorded in the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia (1) (2), and the subspecies M. r. exquisita has also been recorded on the offshore island of Barrow Island (3).
The range of the lined firetail skink includes some of the most arid parts of Australia (4). This small reptile is found in a variety of wooded, grassy and shrubby habitats, generally in well-drained rocky areas or on sandy soils (2) (3) (4).
The lined firetail skink has not yet been classified on the IUCN Red List.
There are not known to be any major threats to the lined firetail skink at present.
No specific conservation measures are currently known to be in place for the lined firetail skink. However, in some parts of its range, such as on Barrow Island, all reptiles are protected (3).
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Report highlights capabilities of MetricStream GRC Platform to align Enterprise GRC with IT GRC
MetricStream today announced that it has been named as a company with strong IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) solutions in the KuppingerCole Vendor Report titled "MetricStream: Bridging the Gap Between Business GRC and IT GRC." The report has been published by KuppingerCole, a leading Europe-based analyst company for information security both in classical and cloud environments.
Analyzing the IT GRC industry, the KuppingerCole report brings out the security and compliance challenges that organizations face due to the increased use of virtualization technologies and external IT services, as well as emerging and evolving compliance requirements. According to the report, "organizations are in a situation where they are confronted with exponential changes regarding outward-facing processes, users, and external IT services used." What organizations require today is an IT GRC solution that is agile to business changes, integrates with enterprise GRC, manages evolving risks related to information security and compliance, and monitors business performance.
IT and cyber security risks are a growing concern for most European organizations. With therise in media attention on privacy and data breaches, European companies are becoming aware of the risk of a data leak ending up in today's more intense news environment and its impact on business.
Having evaluated the IT GRC market, KuppingerCole says that MetricStream's strong and integrated portfolio of GRC solutions comes with well-defined controls, security features that address risks and threats arising from social, cloud and virtualization technologies, and capabilities that enable organizations to merge Information Security, IT Risks, and Enterprise GRC to drive business performance.
Says Vasant Balasubramanian, Vice President of Product Management at MetricStream, "KuppingerCole's report is a testimony to our rich capabilities in IT GRC, and the innovations we have brought to the market to address complex security and compliance risks in an increasingly virtualized and mobile world. MetricStream's IT GRC solutions enable organizations to harmonize GRC processes across the enterprise, align IT GRC with enterprise GRC processes,andintegrate bottom-up IT control processes with top-down risk intelligence."
With the acquisition of vPanorama cloud GRC technology, MetricStream is enabling its customers to seamlessly manage regulatory compliance, privacy requirements, security threats, vulnerability risks, and performance metrics across the entire spectrum of virtual assets in the cloud, as well as on-premise virtual infrastructure.
Martin Kuppinger, Founder and Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole, says, "From the IT perspective, GRC has moved from technical system-oriented approaches towards information and service governance. We found MetricStream's IT GRC solutions to be well-thought and mature based on parameters such as security, functionality, usability, integration capability, and interoperability. The platform also supports business requirements and integrates with other IT security and GRC point solutions to provide a complete enterprise GRC approach."
The report also recommends that organizations looking for GRC solutions carefully evaluate GRC solution vendors. As per the report, "There are different vendors with fundamentally different offerings. While some provide Enterprise GRC solutions focusing on specific aspects of business, ignoring IT GRC, there are others who provide Enterprise GRC that support IT controls and integrate with specific IT GRC solutions. Organizations therefore need to evaluate and analyze GRC vendors based on whether the vendor's roadmap is aligned with the evolutions in the business landscape and if the current offerings are mature enough to support the changing business requirements of organizations."
Mr. Balasubramanian also goes on to say, "MetricStream has a strong track record in providing IT GRC solutions in the European market, the most recent being the implementation of the solution by one of the world's largest international online sports betting services provider. This is attributed to MetricStream's understanding of the global markets and the specific GRC needs of organizations in different locations."


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The application of the 150MVA/345kV three phases self coupling generator interconnection transformer.can significantly improve the economy of the OLTC substation, and matches well with the transmission capacity of OLTC lines, which has wide prospect of application. Because of its large capacity and large volume, the whole transportation weight with nitrogen is about 470-490 tons, and due to the restricted transport conditions, the transportation becomes the critical issue for the 150MVA/345kV three phases self coupling generator interconnection transformer. In order to make the products applicable to any OLTC substation in our country, the state grid of corporation of China set the "A study of easy-transport large capacity OLTC Transformer" as a key scientific research projects, and entrusted BTW to carry out the research.
During the process of research and development, BTW adopted the advanced design technology and modular design, the transformer can be transported disassembly and with advantages of compact core and winding body, less transportation weight and low transportation cost, effectively solves the need of OLTC construction in the transportation restricted areas. By using the most advanced 3D magnetic field calculation software, BTW performed detailed analysis and calculation for the magnetic flux leakage and eddy current loss of the transformer coil, iron core and oil tank steel structures. Besides, by using of the advanced electric field calculation software, BTW performed detailed analysis and calculation of main longitudinal insulation, and mastered the arrangement of the main longitudinal insulation of large capacity OLTCtransformer and the control of distribution of winding magnetic flux leakage. All of which make the products with low loss, low noise, small volume, strong anti short circuit ability, no local overheating and other significant advantages, and guarantee the long-term safe and stable operation.
The world's first on-site assembled large capacity OLTC Transformer's right at the first time once again filled the gap in the field of OLTC transformer research after Chinese transformer industry overcame the difficulty of integral transport of the 150MVA/345kV three phases self coupling generator interconnection transformer, which marks BTW has fully occupied the world transformer industry technical peak. The successful development of the product filled the gaps in the domestic technology and met the urgent need of OLTCconstruction application in our country, greatly improved the technical level and manufacturing ability of BTW in terms of OLTC Transformer products.
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These pages provide statistics for the participants of the BOINC-based LHC@home project, and are based on statistics made available from the official project site.
LHC@home Project Totals
|LHC stands for Large Hadron Collider. It will be the largest and most powerful particle accelerator ever built. LHC@home helps the construction of LHC. It simulates how the particles travel trough the 27 km long tunnel. With the help of the calculated information, the magnets that control the beam can be calibrated with greater precision. LHC@home was created by, and is based at, CERN, which is located in Geneva, Switzerland.
|SIXTRACK is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to advance Accelerator Physics. Participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer.
|BOINC is a software platform for distributed computing using volunteer computer resources, and provides the framework for SETI@home and other projects. It is based at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.


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Update your outdoor space with stylish outdoor furniture for gardens and patios. Browse our catalogue to find the latest offers on modern and long-lasting outdoor furniture from retailers in all parts of Australia, so your back yard will be ready to host events all year round.
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Accordance 9: Hone Your Zones
Yesterday I described the new Zones feature of Accordance 9. Zones are areas of a workspace which can each contain multiple tabs. You might have a zone with tabs containing Bible texts, another zone with tabs containing dictionaries, and a third with tabs containing commentaries. Or you might divide your resources among zones completely differently. Zones are designed to let you work however you like.
Today I want to explain how new zones are created and how Accordance attempts to guess which zone you're going to want a new resource to appear in. While there's no way we could anticipate every possible use of zones, we have tried to create a system which is flexible enough to adjust to your way of working.
By default, a new zone will be created for each different kind of resource you open. For example, let's say you have a workspace containing only your default Bible and you choose to open the tagged Greek New Testament (GNT-T) from the resource palette. Since you've opened a second Text module, the GNT-T will appear in a new tab within your workspace's one zone. The first time you open a new Tool module, however, a new Tools zone will appear next to the current Texts zone. If you then open other tools, such as Greek or Hebrew lexicons, commentaries, or dictionaries, those will appear as tabs within the Tools zone. Other kinds of resources, such as Maps, Timelines, or Parallels, will open in additional zones.
That's how zones and tabs within those zones are opened by default, but if you create custom zones for specific purposes, Accordance will try to utilize those zones as effectively as possible. For example, let's say you have a tools zone with two tabs: one containing Anchor Bible Dictionary (an English Tool) and another containing the New American Commentary (a Reference Tool). You decide you want your commentaries to be in a separate zone, so you grab the tab containing NAC and drag it to another area of the workspace to create a new zone. You now have one zone with Anchor and another with NAC. From that point on, any additional reference tools you open will appear as a tab in the zone containing NAC, while other kinds of tools will be opened in the zone containing Anchor. In this way, Accordance tries to open resources in the most logical zone available.
Here's another possible scenario. Let's say I combine a Greek text like the GNT-T and a Greek Tool like BDAG in the same zone. From that point on, any Greek Text or Tool I open will appear as additional tabs in that Greek Resources zone.
In short, when you open a new resource in Accordance 9, Accordance looks at the available zones to see which one is the best fit for that kind of resource. And the logic is flexible enough to consider various ways of grouping resources: by resource type, by language, or by some combination thereof. Knowing this, you can hone your use of zones so that new resources open right where you want them.
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Rino Dattilo
Can a commentary in a zone though track with your scripture passages? I tried that and could and get that to work. Maybe I was misunderstanding what you were saying.
Thanks! Rino
Ron Webber
Hello David,
I love the new zones feature. It has provided a definite enhancement to productivity for me. I can envision a button on each zone that would expand the zone to full screen (especially useful for zones like timeline and atlas) and then collapse the zone to its preset grouping (kind of like the green button for normal window behavior, only for zones). What do you think?
Best regards,
David Lang
Rino, simply tie the commentaries in a separate zone with your Bible text by going to the Set submenu of the Window menu and choosing "Tie to [name of tab you want to tie to]". The commentaries will then track with the scrolling of that window.
Ron, it's certainly an interesting idea.
Sung Jahng
I have a Bible Search Text in one zone tied to a Commentary in another zone. When I click a scripture reference link in the commentary zone, it opens the link in the Bible zone, however in a new tab. I'd love for it to simply update the Bible tab that's already open, maybe by automatically entering the reference in the search field. Is this possible?
Thanks! SJ
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Nathan Pryor of Vancouver, WA, built this counting box for his son.
My 4-year-old son loves counting and numbers, so I built him a dedicated counting box. Select a value from 1-10 with the rotary switch in the middle, then push the big green arcade button to add that to the total shown on the LED display, or push the red button to subtract it. It's driven by an ATMega, and the box itself is made from laser-cut bamboo and acrylic. A viewing window on the back lets him peek at the circuit inside.
The site has a write-up of the building process.
I have to also give props to Nathan for his awesome enclosure, he has an interesting part of his post where he talks about designing it and sending it out for lasering.


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Curious George goes skiing at Waterville Valley winter festival
WATERVILLE VALLEY, N.H. (AP) � A winter family festival featuring Curious George on the slopes is being held at the Waterville Valley Ski Resort.
The event on Saturday includes a banana pancake breakfast at T-Bars Restaurant, followed by a courtyard procession with George, The Man with the Yellow Hat and their new friend, Bruce the Moose, Waterville Valley's newest mascot.
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Milwaukee girls ran away from home, police say
The two girls who were missing late Saturday night and Sunday morning ran away from home, according to Milwaukee police.
Relatives told police the girls were put to bed around 10 or 11 p.m. Saturday, but when family checked in on them shortly before midnight, the girls were gone, and their coats were missing, too.
Police said a "concerned citizen" found Samaria Johnson, 9, and Olivia Erkins, 4.
The man couldn't determine where the girls lived, so he took them to his own house.
Police said the man was unable to contact the girls' family, so he eventually called his pastor.
The man then dropped the children off at the District Five police station at about noon Sunday.
Police told WIN 12 News, "It does not appear the children were harmed while out overnight."
Police said they are still trying to determine why the girls ran away.
WISN 12 News has learned a 27-year-old female relative of the girls was arrested Sunday afternoon on suspicion of child abuse. She remains jailed without bail as Milwaukee police continue their investigation.
WISN 12 News has not named the woman under arrest because, so far, no criminal charges have been filed. She does not have a prior criminal record in Wisconsin.
The girls are staying with a relative, WISN 12 News learned.
WISN 12 News left messages for the Bureau of Child Welfare to see if there have been any prior contacts with the family, but the calls were not returned.


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PARIS/DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co, which clung to the road with a timely swerve before the 2009 crisis that bankrupted General Motors Co, may now be pulling a similar stunt in Europe.
The Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker is scrapping three European plants and thousands of jobs while its rival appears to be stuck on the starting grid. The speed of Ford's restructuring plan - and the comparatively slow pace of GM's - has become more important during a protracted slump in Europe's auto market, with sales down another 7.2 percent so far this year.
Both companies unveiled hefty third-quarter losses in the region and warned they could lose a combined $6 billion or more in Europe in 2012-13.
The bad news weighs heavily on GM's troubled Opel unit, which has lost billions of dollars over the past decade, has a long history of ill will with its labor unions, has seen its products and brand image pummeled in the media and has shown the door to all but a handful of its top executives.
More than anything, however, the cost of making cars is simply too high, with too many workers still on the payroll given sagging demand in most of western Europe.
Opel is lagging Ford in Europe because it "totally missed the golden opportunity" to make deeper cuts during the last crisis, said Mirko Mikelic, portfolio manager at Fifth Third Bank, who oversees assets including GM preferred shares and Ford debt. "Most investors would like to see some capacity cuts" at GM, he said. "It doesn't necessarily have to be the same timing as Ford ... but we hope GM will take similar steps."
The euro zone crisis has exacerbated the auto sector's overcapacity, locking companies into paying high fixed costs to build fewer vehicles. GM and Ford plants in Europe operate at less than 75 percent of installed capacity, analysts say.
Unlike Opel, Ford of Europe now has a clearer path to recovery after announcing 6,200 job cuts with the closure of a major assembly plant and two smaller factories, starting next year. Ford will shutter a British van factory and associated stamping plant in 2013, with the bigger site in Genk, Belgium to close the following year.
More cuts may follow if these prove insufficient to achieve regional profitability by mid-decade and a 6-8 percent operating margin in the longer term, the company added.
GM, by contrast, has been preoccupied with forging an alliance with struggling French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen that likely will not generate significant gains before 2016. Opel is also mired in union negotiations to close a plant in Bochum, Germany - but not until the following year.
The latest Opel talks deadline expired as GM published its quarterly results on Wednesday. Unions announced earlier in the week that negotiations had been extended and may continue into 2013, with no new date set for their conclusion.
"We know we are behind," said Steve Girsky, GM vice chairman and interim Opel chief, citing Opel's deteriorating brand image and "poor relations" with German unions. "It's still bloody out there, but we're making some progress," he told analysts. "Small wins lead to big wins."
GM has repeatedly changed tack over Opel since an abortive attempt to sell it in 2009 to a Russian-backed coalition.
The carmaker declined to comment on a Financial Times Deutschland report that it is hiring Volkswagen executive Karl-Thomas Neumann to take over as Opel CEO in mid-2013. The job has already been vacant for more than three months since the last incumbent was sacked.
The 2009 crisis forced GM to close a factory the following year in Antwerp, Belgium, and the company is trimming more jobs through buyouts and early retirements expected to yield 2,600 departures this year. Opel employs about 40,000 European workers to Ford's 47,000, excluding joint ventures.
"Despite the terrible economic environment in Europe, we're not sitting still," Girsky said this week on a conference call. "There are some green shoots sprouting at Opel, in the mud."
Unveiling a 15 percent quarterly profit decline, weighed down by European losses of $478 million, GM said new models would improve Opel's situation next year, even as the European market shrinks a further 4-5 percent by the company's own estimates. Like Ford, it pledged to break even by around 2015.
The GM plan "allows investors to at least stop obsessing over Europe and refocus attention on North America", said Jeffries analyst Peter Nesvold. "While we felt as though Ford's had more granular details, the end goal is the same."
The European cutbacks at Ford are expected to generate savings of $500 million annually by 2015, compared with a cumulative $500 million in cost savings pledged for Opel in 2013-2015.
But Ford says structural costs also will increase over the next several years as it broadens its product range in Europe to include more expensive, higher-margin vehicles.
Ford's European recovery plan aims to boost its sagging 7.8 percent market share, while GM's outlook is premised on sustaining its current 8.6 percent share. Executives at both firms say they also are focused on reducing stocks of unsold cars, while trimming variable costs to lift per-vehicle margins.
Ford's $468 million quarterly loss in the region was drowned by a North American earnings surge that reflected its earlier turnaround at home - now cited by executives as a blueprint for Europe.
In 2006, two years before the Lehman Brothers collapse ushered in the global financial crisis, Ford stepped up a restructuring effort in North America that scrapped tens of thousands of jobs and several plants.
By 2009, the company was solid enough to stay afloat as GM took a government bailout and Chrysler was sold to Fiat - both through Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
Beyond the disposals, Ford seeks more gains by building future cars and trucks from just five basic platforms, compared with nine distinct vehicle architectures currently deployed.
The push to consolidate underlying technologies - led by rivals VW and Hyundai - is already lifting earnings at home. Ford's North American operating profit amounted to 12 percent of third-quarter sales, pulling further ahead of GM's 7.8 percent margin.
"We track how we're performing versus Ford very closely and we've got a good understanding of the gap," GM's U.S. finance chief Chuck Stephens told reporters and analysts this week. "Obviously it's widened thus far this year. Ford is about two years ahead of us (in) getting scale on global architectures."
Ford's lead over GM is closer to four years in the European restructuring stakes. And even then, Bochum's 2017 closure should not be taken for granted, some observers warn.
"It's such a long way out, and once the market gets better in 2014 or 2015, (GM) will be pressured by the German government to reconsider," said George Galliers, a London-based analyst with Credit Suisse. "It's better to make a painful break than to draw out the agony."
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Falcons say 49ers' Kaepernick poses new challenge
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) – Michael Turner's trademark high-pitched laugh filled the Falcons' locker room.
Asked about San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Turner grinned Thursday and said "I'm glad I'm not on defense."
Turner, the big running back, and the Falcons' offense want to hold the ball and limit Kaepernick's time on the field in Sunday's NFC championship game.
The Falcons have seen enough in Kaepernick's eight starts to respect the versatile quarterback with the long stride and strong right arm.
Kaepernick comes to Atlanta after running for 181 yards – an NFL record for a quarterback – with two touchdowns in last week's win over Green Bay. Kaepernick also threw for 263 yards with two touchdowns. He became only the third quarterback, after Otto Graham and Jay Cutler, to run and throw for at least two touchdowns in a postseason game.
It's little wonder the Falcons are impressed, even after facing such other dual-threat quarterbacks as Robert Griffin III, Cam Newton and Russell Wilson this season.
Linebacker Sean Weatherspoon says the 6-foot-4, 230-pound Kaepernick is unique.
"I think he's just a different guy altogether," Weatherspoon said. "He's a taller guy, obviously. He broke the record last week, so that makes him special and different. I think he has a lot more speed. Russell is more of a quick guy. Colin is a faster guy."
Wilson and Griffin are scramblers. Kaepernick looks more like a 200-meter sprinter with his unusually long stride.
"That's the thing," Weatherspoon said. "You look at him and you think long striders are not fast, but then you look and he's covering a lot of ground and passing a lot of people. You can tell he can run. Speed won't be a surprise to us. We've watched the tape. We'll be ready to go."
The 49ers don't have to be told they'll bring an unusually gifted quarterback to the Georgia Dome. In only half of a season, Kaepernick has given the San Francisco offense a facelift.
"He's super-fast, athletic and he can throw the ball," said 49ers running back LaMichael James. "Once he breaks the pocket he's always looking downfield. He's looking to throw the ball more than run the ball. But once he takes off, he's faster than a lot of running backs and linebackers. He's an incredible athlete."
Kaepernick has avoided the big hits that have made it difficult for such other running quarterbacks as Griffin and Michael Vick to avoid injuries.
He said his strategy is "Run where they're not."
"You want to run away from where the defensive players are," Kaepernick said. "When they get close, get down."
The Falcons' defense has reason to worry about the matchup. Atlanta survived its 30-28 divisional playoff win over Seattle last week despite Wilson's fourth-quarter dominance. The Falcons led 27-7 at the start of the quarter but trailed 28-27 before winning on Matt Bryant's late 49-yard field goal.
Wilson passed for 385 yards with two touchdowns and led Seattle with 60 yards rushing and a touchdown.
Falcons coach Mike Smith said he is preparing for the 49ers' "traditional offense that we're used to seeing" as well as the pistol formation with read-option plays that Kaepernick ran in college at Nevada.
"We're going to have to be prepared to stop him," Smith said. "We're going to see things we haven't seen in terms of what they'll do with their formations."
Wilson found open room when he took off on long runs after first looking to pass. Falcons safety Thomas DeCoud said Kaepernick shows more determination to run.
"With Kaepernick, I think once he tucks the ball he's looking to run," DeCoud said. "There will be a few rare instances where he has his eyes looking downfield. More times than not, if he's dropping back and tucks the ball, he's taking off to run where Russell, he had his head up looking downfield and wasn't really looking to cross the line of scrimmage. He was just trying to buy time for his guys to get open."
Kaepernick's big game last week earned him the promise of more attention from the Falcons defense.
"We definitely have to have somebody accounting for him," DeCoud said, adding defensive backs have to be ready to leave their assignments to help contain Kaepernick's runs.
"Last week we kind of bought into plastering the receivers if (Wilson) broke containment because of the fact he likes to find the open receivers," DeCoud said. "This week, we'll have to be cognizant of maybe coming off coverage if he crosses the line of scrimmage to thwart him making a big play on us."
Falcons linebacker Mike Peterson said the one obstacle Kaepernick can't dodge with his speed is inexperience. Sunday's game will be Kaepernick's first playoff game on the road.
"You've got to get in his mind and change the looks up on him," Peterson said. "He's a great quarterback, doing a lot of good things for his team, but the common denominator is that he's still a young quarterback.
"He can't run from that."
NOTES: Smith said CB Christopher Owens (hamstring), who hasn't played since Dec. 22, "looked well-rested and recovered from his injury" in practice. … DT Jonathan Babineaux (shoulder) and DE John Abraham (left ankle) had limited participation in practice for the second straight day.


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He says with a smile: "You are tough, aren't you?"
I do not know whether to laugh or cry. I haven't even done anything tough, that I can think of, quite the opposite. Perhaps putting on big sunglasses triggers tough. I can't respond.
Why does that line not exactly feel like a compliment? So for the next few days I think about this. Am I tough? Is that bad? Why does it feel bad? What's the opposite of tough? Is that what I want to be?
And is this an instance of Tiny Sexism rearing its head? Would a man call another man tough? Would a guy worry about being tough?
I look it up. Tough:
"Strong enough to withstand adverse conditions or rough or careless handling." Check. Love that bit about careless handling.
"Able to withstand great strain without tearing or breaking; strong and resilient." Check. Resilience: the key to life. A most important muscle that no one has yet pinpointed on the Anatomy Chart. Instead, we are left to our own devices to locate the resilience muscle, exercise, strengthen, stretch it.
"Not easily chewed." Check. Or spat out, I might add.
"Characterized by severity or uncompromising determination." Maybe Check? Sometimes. That Presbyterian upbringing, another man once told me. Your mother, said some other. How bossy you were, said my little sisters. How you learned to walk, said my dear father.
"Marked by absence of softness or sentimentality." Never, actually.
I would have said, had my wits not been scattered: "I'm not tough. I'm strong." Tough seemed bad, before I looked it up. Tough didn't exactly seem like a synonym for strong, when I looked up strong.
"Having force of character, will, morality, or intelligence." Check.
"Capable of the effective exercise of authority." Check.
"Not easily captured or defeated." Check. My personal favorite.
I hereby officially and proudly own up to being tough. And strong. It isn't all I am, but it is part of who I have become. By necessity. And by choice. And so, you are so tough, aren't you?
You say that like its a bad thing. I should have said, Thank You. And will now.
I'm with Kellie Pickler: "There ain't nothin wrong with a woman that got a little backbone."


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When you register to become a SurveyBods panel member and during your time as a SurveyBods panel member, we will collect the following personal information from you: full name, title, age, date of birth, home address, telephone number, gender, bank account details, if you have any children, nationality, the country you are living in, email address, employment status, location of your workplace, job level, IP Address, marital status, photographs, videos, location data, operating system, browser version, cookie details, the content you viewed on the Site, how long you stayed and on which pages, and your navigation around the Site.
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Officials denounce gun violence at Connecticut nightclub
NEW HAVEN>> One woman is dead, one person is listed in critical condition and four are being treated for other injuries after a shooting at the Key Club Cabaret at 85 Saint John St. Saturday.
The shooting occurred around 3:30 a.m. and claimed the life of Erica Robinson, 26, of West Haven. A 19-year-old woman, Amanda John of Asylum Street in New Haven, was also among the victims of the shooting.
Other shooting victims include:
— Jahad Brumsey, 29, of Garden Street in New Haven (critical)
— Nijia Ward, 24, of Lilac Street in New Haven
— Albert Dickerson, 34, of Sherman Parkway in New Haven
— Ivette Sterling, 25, of Osborn Street in New Haven
The homicide is the fourth club-related of the year and 16th overall, according to police. Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said, in his 20 years as mayor, he has never seen such a high percentage of club-related homicides.
He called on the state legislature Saturday afternoon at a press conference to adopt wide reforms to target the violence seen in and around nightclubs across cities.
"It's curious to me in this state we stand on our high horse and say 'jeez'; after Sandy Hook we should be banning all these assault weapons and such, true enough," DeStefano said. "But it seems to me, after these kinds of incidents, you know look in the mirror in Connecticut and take action to save lives."
Gov. Dannel Malloy was also on hand for the press conference Saturday afternoon. He expressed his condolences to the victims' families and said he will work with DeStefano and the legislature on some of the proposals.
"As a former mayor myself for 14 years, I absolutely agree with almost everything the mayor has said," Malloy said.
DeStefano made a wide range of proposals that are likely to draw the ire of many liquor establishments across the state.
He proposed the following measures, many of which would have to be adopted by the state legislature:
— Ability for cities to levy fees for nightclubs in a district where heavy police presence is required.
— Mandate that private security at nightclubs be licensed and trained by the Police Department.
— Ability for city to sign off on licenses for clubs.
— Review "mosaic" of different liquor licenses and see whether or not state should simplify them.
DeStefano's term as mayor will be up before the start of next year's state legislative session. He said it would be common sense for his successor to push for the same proposals, as well.
A New Haven officer was outside of the club at the corner of Hamilton Street around 3:30 a.m. when he heard gunfire coming from inside.
Police spokesman Officer David Hartman said an officer rushed into the club this morning as more than a hundred patrons rushed out the main doorway. Several other officers within the block arrived on scene within seconds.
Six gunshot victims were located within the club's after-hours area, and Hartman said all available officers, along with firefighters and EMTs from the New Haven Fire Department, were dispatched. Ambulances were summoned to take the victims to area hospitals.
Hartman said that detectives had begun their investigation and had been interviewing several witnesses. No suspects had been identified, and police were asking anyone with information about this crime to call the Detective Bureau at 203-946-6304. Hartman said calls may be made anonymously.
Police said that they were told the owners of the club, John Bertini and Peter Forchetti, were not on the property during the shootings. Hartman said that the Key Club is an adult entertainment venue, and the area of the club that was open to the public has a "bring-your-own-alcohol" policy. The interior was littered with drug paraphernalia and drug packaging, and smelled of marijuana, police said.
The Key Club Cabaret's website says it is Connecticut's largest after-hours club Friday and Saturday, and Connecticut's hottest club. The club's Twitter said it was offering happy hour all day Friday, and invited people to stop in.
Call Rich Scinto at 203-789-5748.
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Egyptian Christians to Discuss Political, Social Shifts During WEA Summit
The World Evangelical Alliance will hold an Egypt Summit in Washington, D.C., Feb. 7-8, at the request of Christian leaders in Egypt, the organization has announced.
The WEA is the largest global evangelical body with a network of churches in 129 nations and an alliance of 100 international organizations representing over 600 million Christians worldwide. The summit, to be held one year after the Arab Spring wave reached Cairo and resulted in the toppling of despotic president Hosni Mubarak, is a response to concerns expressed by the international Christian community who have been watching events unfold in Egypt since January 2011.
Christian observers have expressed concern about Muslim political parties sweeping an overwhelming majority in the Egyptian parliament, following the uprising that toppled Mubarak, which was also followed by acts of violence against local Coptic Christians, one of the oldest religious minorities in the country. The continuing unrest in the country has also been troubling observers.
The WEA has been "carefully monitoring the situation in Egypt" and interacting with key national leaders through the past year to help determine how the global church might best respond to "this dynamic and quickly changing situation."
Egyptian Christian leaders will provide an analysis of their current reality during the summit, the groupsaid in a statement. But another key purpose of the event is for Christian organizations and churches in the United States to brainstorm on how best to partner with the Church in Egypt at this "critical time of transition," WEA said.
The organization has asked the international Christian community to pray with Christians of Egypt "for a peaceful transition within the country and for cooperation among all other parties in order to achieve equality, freedom and justice in the nation." The WEA is "calling on our global community to stand in united prayer with our sisters and brothers in Egypt at this crucial time in Egypt's history," WEA Secretary General Dr. Geoff Tunnicliffe said.
Coptic Christians constitute nine percent of the population -- which is mostly Sunni Muslim -- and they have been existing in Egypt for close to 2,000 years. But following the Egypt uprising, the community has been faced with persecution. On May 8, Egyptians gathered next to a building that belonged to Christians and set it on fire during clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Imbaba neighborhood of Cairo, as reported by ABC. The violence reportedly killed 12 and injured more than 200.
Then, on Oct. 9, Christians and secular activists alike gathered in Cairo to protest the burning of a Coptic church in Southern Aswan, which took place on Sept. 30. The protests proved to be one of the most violent clashes between the military and civilians since the Arab Spring uprisings began, according to reports. Soldiers allegedly brutalized protesters, killing 27, driving tanks into crowds and, as some reports claim, firing live ammunition into the crowds. About 300 people were also reportedly injured during the melee.


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I had to include this one. This is Banks' best friend Allen. Banks told me he likes Allen because "he looks like a ninja." haha I'm sure Allen's parents would be thrilled to know that.
Banks graduated from Pre-school last Saturday. The ceremony was short and sweet and I always love a chance to see one of my kids sort of in their own element, playing and interacting with peers. Strangely, the parent in front of us cried pretty much the whole time. Maybe she knows her son is going to be a kindergarten drop-out and she was cherishing his only graduation.
Banks didn't really give two hoots about graduating. But he's excited to have the summer off and then ride the bus with Benson to elementary school!
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Could anybody answer,please,why is it no possible to save tif files in Grayscale Mode from LR? (Or am I wrong)
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what it is you're trying to do but there's no problem with saving a grey-scale (ie, B&W) TIFF file from Lightroom and no export to Photoshop is necessary in order to do it. I assume you're starting with a colour RAW or DNG image. Convert it to B&W in the develop module. Switch back to the library module when done. Click the Export button, lower left corner of screen. In the export dialog box select your destination folder, scroll down to the File Settings section and switch from the default jpeg to tiff using the Image Type pull-down menu. Make any other settings you need, hit the Export button in the lower-right corner of the dialog box and you're done.
As I said before, because it's not needed by many people.
Is a high-rate JPEG file not sufficient for your needs? (JPEG should be able to compress non-colored rgb images approximately as well as true tray-scale images).-h
Really, I've given you the reason - there is little demand for it. There's much more demand for CMYK, for example. Those who really need Grayscale Mode are usually those who also have Photoshop and can create an action or droplet:In PS, create a new document and record an action with one step - Image > Mode > GrayscaleIn PS, File > Automate > Create DropletPoint it to your actionIn Destination, choose Save and CloseSave the Droplet to your desktopIn Lightroom, Preferences, Presets, Show LR Presets folderShould now be in Finder/Explorer, so go into this Lightroom folder and Export ActionsMove the Droplet into this folderRestart LRExport a file and at the bottom of the export dialog notice the Post Processing sectionFrom its dropdown list, choose your Droplet and click OKOnce the file has exported, PS should open it, make it Grayscale Mode, and save and close it


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I'm sorry, but I'm moving the furniture around and you are just going to have to learn to live with the noise of the construction and remodel for a while. 😉
The look of this blog will be changing soon. And probably a lot over the next month or so as no web design is ever done, it's merely tweaked and tortured endlessly. There are no laws against torture in web design. Trust me. I'm still torturing web designs over 10 years old!
I'm taking advantage of the new CSS Editor access for WordPress.com blogs, and working overtime to keep updating the Sandbox Theme CSS stylesheet list as I go.
To answer your questions, yes. I will be discussing how this all works, how to make it work for you, how to make it do what you want, and how to screw up your WordPress.com blog in five steps or less.
As a warning for those considering this new paid option, this is not for the timid. The new Sandbox Theme is very simple and incredibly complex. It is designed for exquisite design detailing, right down to the smallest element, which is beyond most people's capabilities and desires. Most of you want to just change the header art. Skip this technique and choose a WordPress Theme with a header art option. Currently, there is little support in the WordPress.com Support Forums for CSS customization. Go forth warned.
The new CSS Editor allows you to do two things:
Tweak the WordPress Theme you are currently using on WordPress.com. For example, currently, the Rubric Theme I'm using has no style for blockquotes. I've added my own graphics to make it look interesting, and using the CSS Editor, I could add those permanently to the Theme's stylesheet. Maybe even add a colored background to my blockquotes. Being forced to use the deprecated
ALIGN attribute to float an image to wrap text around it to the right or left, I can add
p img { padding: 0; max-width: 100%; padding:3px; } to put some space around the graphics so they aren't crowded by the text. I can also add
a img {border:0} to get rid of those annoying red borders around all images which are linked like thumbnails. Something simple. It will not allow you to override the structure or core styles of the Theme, just tweak a few things.
Using the Sandbox Theme, you can strip your WordPress.com blog completely naked and start from scratch. You MUST have experience in web design, CSS, XHTML/HTML, including advanced CSS structures and techniques. I've uncovered over 400 possible style references, and this does not count all the combinations and CSS hierarchies that can be used in combination. Just the basics. The CSS structure DOES NOT resemble most current WordPress Themes available today, which are based on the Default/Kubrick WordPress Theme. You can't take any WordPress Theme and apply it. In many ways, you will be starting from scratch. Literally.
So stay tuned for the fun and games as I maul my blog. And thank you for your patience while we are under construction. Pardon our dust.
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· Added support for Honeycomb large screen compatibility mode
· Added support for font styles on Samsung Galaxy devices
· Fix for problem with text disappearing in text fields
· Fix for HTML5 < audio > tag auto-play
· Fix for mismatched RGB colors on some devices
· Fix for black screen when starting Opera Mobile on some devices
· Fix for various stability issues on certain devices
· Fix for various font issues on certain devices
· Security update fix
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· Fixed force close issues related to non-standard fonts in the system
· Fixed force close issues when using hardware keyboards
· Fixed problems with text vanishing from text fields after editing
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· Added support for Google voice search
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The oldest church in Germany, a seat of a bishop continuously since the third century and thus the oldest episcopal church in Germany: the High Cathedral of Saint Peter in Trier is unrivalled in every respect. Together with the Church of Our Lady and the Aula Palatina, it forms a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is a top destination for pilgrims the world over.
Pilgrims flock to Trier, not just because they want to walk in the footsteps of St. Martin – despite the fact that there is evidence he resided in Trier several times between 371 and 386. The Seamless Robe of Jesus (or the "Holy Robe"), which Constantine the Great's mother brought with her on her pilgrimage to Trier in the fourth century, is an attraction shrouded in mystery. It is a jewel in the cathedral treasury that the public only rarely get to see. The last time was in 2012.
Germany's oldest episcopal church is a combination of a whopping 1,700 years of building, art and religious history. This can be seen in the architecture as well as inside the cathedral, where the cathedral pulpit, the scallop shell-shaped baptismal font in the western chancel and the imposing design of the eastern chancel with the pilgrims' staircase and the view of the Baroque chapel for the relic of the Seamless Robe of Jesus captivate visitors. A number of bishops' gravestones also bear witness to the church's long history.
The Holy Door, which connects the cathedral and the Church of Our Lady, is another of the cathedral's main attractions. It was opened in 2015 for the Holy Year of Mercy, one of the major moments when the past can be at one with the present.
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A Montgomery County pet donkey named Susie Q is recovering from nearly fatal dragging and a man suspected of causing the animal's injuries has been arrested.
A veterinarian is treating the jenny, whose hooves were worn down to the bone Thursday after she was pulled by an SUV, investigators said. Susie Q also suffered a laceration on her side and was unable to walk.
Marc Richard Saunders, 30, of Splendora, was charged with felony animal cruelty, investigators said.
Authorities said the vet could not determine if Susie Q would make a full recovery and her owners may seek a second opinion from another animal doctor, said Capt. Mark Seals of the Montgomery County Precinct 4 Constable's Office.
"I thought I've seen it all, but there's always room to be surprised," Seals said.
Blood trail along road
The chain of events began when friends of Saunders told him that their donkey had wandered around the corner and was secured on Acorn Hill Drive, northwest of New Caney, so that someone could retrieve her, investigators said.
Another friend offered to walk the donkey home, but Saunders insisted on driving - saying he would tie the animal to the trailer hitch on his Chevrolet Blazer and slowly lead her.
Saunders, accompanied by another man, found Susie Q and they tied her to the vehicle with a rope, according to a constable's office news release. The second man sat on the open tailgate of Saunders' SUV and they took off with the donkey in tow.
"At first, the man said Saunders drove slowly and Susie Q was able to keep up," the release said. "But then, [the witness] said Saunders sped up and the donkey sat down, straightening her front legs to try and stop. The man on the tailgate said he yelled and pleaded with Saunders to stop, but Saunders said it was 'fine' and then increased his speed."
The man continued to yell, but watched helplessly as the donkey was injured by the pavement. The man estimated that Saunders drove about 40 mph as he dragged Susie Q about one-quarter mile.
"The blood trail left by the donkey supported the witness's story and showed that Saunders drove at least 10 to 15 feet farther after Susie Q fell on her side when the pavement had ground off her hooves between 1.5 and 2 inches, exposing raw flesh and bone," the release states.
Vehicle impounded
Saunders finally stopped and walked to the back of the SUV, the witness told investigators. When he saw the bloody donkey, Saunders untied the rope from the trailer hitch and fled.
Deputies tracked him to Splendora, where they found a bloodied rope in the SUV that is believed to have been used to drag the animal. The SUV was impounded.
Saunders later told investigators that he "never drove fast while pulling Susie Q and left because he had to meet his daughter's school bus," according to the release.
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text: Whitecaps call up 4 Residency players August 14, 200812:00AM PDT Previous Next VANCOUVER, BC - Vancouver Whitecaps FC announced today that goalkeeper Simon Thomas, defender/midfielder Navid Mashinchi, and strikers Randy Edwini-Bonsu and Dever Orgill have been called up to the Whitecaps United Soccer Leagues First Division (USL-1) side from Vancouver Whitecaps FC Residency of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL). Thomas, 17, backstopped Whitecaps Residency to the PDL semifinal before bowing out to eventual champions Thunder Bay Chill 2-1 on August 2. During the regular season, the six-foot-two, 170-pound native of Victoria, BC, recorded nine wins and four defeats, while earning five shutouts and a goals-against-average of 1.000. Prior to joining the Residency program last summer, Thomas played his club soccer for the Victoria United U-18 Metro team and was a member of the 2006 BC U-16 provincial team. In 2004, he guided Victoria United to a first place finish at the 2004 BC provincial championships. Thomas also played high school soccer for Oak Bay Senior Secondary, where he attended school before entering the Residency program. Mashinchi, 19, re-joins the USL-1 team after making his first-team debut as a late substitute in the 1-1 home draw with Charleston Battery on July 23. During the Residency's inaugural PDL season, the five-foot-eight, 140-pound native of Düsseldorf, Germany, appeared in 14 of the Whitecaps 16 regular season games, accumulating 1,237 minutes of action and scoring one goal. Mashinchi - who now calls Coquitlam, BC, home - joined the Residency program in September 2007 after making four appearances for Iran's U-18 national team, with all four matches taking place in a four-team tournament that included Laos, Uzbekistan, and Bahrain in 2006. Prior to joining the Residency program, the defender/midfielder played club soccer with The Westside FC Rangers U-21 side of the Vancouver Metro Soccer League U-21 Division in 2006. Also, from 2003 to 2006, Mashinchi played for both the U-15 and U-17 teams of German third division club Fortuna Düsseldorf. Edwini-Bonsu, 18, returns to the USL-1 side after making his first appearance last May in the Whitecaps international friendly versus Major League Soccer club Los Angeles Galaxy. Edwini-Bonsu played the final 12 minutes in the Whitecaps 3-1 victory in Edmonton, Alberta. Remarkably, only days earlier, the native of Kumasi, Ghana, was named Most Valuable Player in the INSEL-CUP junior international tournament - an international German tournament which saw the Residency team finish third. Following the Galaxy match, Edwini-Bonsu enjoyed a very successful first season in the PDL. In 15 regular season matches, the five-foot-five, 140-pound midfielder/forward led the Residency side in scoring with nine goals and two assists. In addition, he scored five goals in the Whitecaps three PDL playoff matches. His efforts earned him a place in the PDL All-Western Conference Team Edwini-Bonsu, who started playing soccer when his family immigrated to Edmonton in 2002, earned 15 caps and scored two goals for Canada's U-17 men's national team. Edwini-Bonsu has also played for Alberta's provincial team, winning gold at the National All-Star Championship in 2006. At the club level, Edwini-Bonsu played for South West United in the Edmonton Interdistrict Youth Soccer Association (EIYSA) between 2003 and 2006. In his last year with the club, he led the team to a second-place finish at the club national championship. Orgill, 18, also returns to the first team after being called up earlier this season, though the forward has yet to see action with the USL-1 side. The six-foot, 150-pound native of Port Antonio, Jamaica, returns to the Whitecaps after spending the past month with Jamaica's U-20 national team, as the Reggae Boyz reached the second round of Caribbean qualifying for the 2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship. During the PDL season, Orgill appeared in seven games for the Residency team, amassing 399 minutes of action and scoring two goals. The striker joined the Residency program last September and has performed well in major international youth tournaments for the club. Most notably, last March, Orgill scored goals against the academy sides of Germany's Eintracht Frankfurt and England's Leicester City at Dallas Cup XXIX. Internationally, Orgill was the captain of the 2007 Jamaica squad at the CONCACAF U-17 World Cup qualifiers, where he scored the game-tying goal against the USA, as the Reggae Boyz went on to defeat The Stars & Stripes 3-2. In 2005, Orgill earned the Golden Boot award in the Caribbean Football Union's Under-15 tournament held in Trinidad & Tobago after scoring 12 goals in six matches. In total, Orgill has scored 22 goals in his 22 international youth appearances for Jamaica. Vancouver Whitecaps FC Residency is a full-time program dedicated to developing North America's top youth players in Vancouver. Whitecaps Residency allows elite youth players from U-17 to U-19 to achieve professional opportunities with the Whitecaps men's team and world-class European clubs using the European club model of identification, development, and placement. The Whitecaps next match is this Sunday, August 17, when the United Soccer Leagues First Division leaders Puerto Rico Islanders make their lone regular season visit of 2008 to Swangard Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7:00 p.m. For tickets, which start at $18, call 604.280.4400 or visit ticketmaster.ca. 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Heroes: Rick Rubin ***ATTENTION IAN***
The Legendary Music Producer Who Founded Def Jam Out Of A Dorm Room Talks To Author Touré About His Creative Process, His Dear Friend MCA, and the Album That Got Away
The Legendary Music Producer Who Founded Def Jam Out Of A Dorm Room Talks To Author Touré About His Creative Process, His Dear Friend MCA, and the Album That Got Away
Photography: Mark Romanek
Text: Touré
Rick Rubin is a man who's shaped the sound of America. Over 30 years he's placed a unique imprint on important artists like the Beastie Boys, Jay-Z, Johnny Cash, AC/DC, Tom Petty, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and many others. He has a keen ear and a way with people, which is why many call him a guru. He comes across as very calm and Zen and thoughtful, all of which you can tell is helpful in getting recording artists to be more instinctive and reveal their essence. That, as much as his sonic taste, is behind his massive success.
If I was a new artist, what would it take to get a Rick Rubin production on my album? What's gonna make you say yes to me when you say no to another hundred who ask?
RICK RUBIN Just a feeling. A feeling of connection. If I have a personal connection with it or if I see something in it, or see an angle into it that I think I can help make it better than it is. A lot of times it comes down to the people. I just meet the artist and like the artist. It's about that connection more than anything.
One of the things that you've been great at doing is bringing something new out of people. How do you accomplish that?
RR I try to help an artist get closer to who they are. So we take away all of the thoughts of what the radio sounds like or what they think they're supposed to do or what their label thinks they're supposed to do or what anybody thinks they're supposed to do and get into the roots of who they are and create a safe environment for them to be themselves and let their guard down and just expose who they are. Help them find what that magic thing is about them, why they do what they do in the first place.
I've heard that you get people to move quickly. And that's part of trying to get to that instinctive stuff, right?
RR That's true, but we spend a great deal of time preparing. Like it may be two years of work just working on songs before we go into the studio, and then we go in and it happens very quickly.
Have the problems of the record business changed anything for you professionally?
RR Not really. We do it to where we love it. We can never predict or guess what anyone else is going to like. The industry's gone through a lot of changes but from the making music standpoint it's pretty similar. We care about it as much as we always did and want it to be as good as it can possibly be and are willing to do whatever it takes for it to be as good as it can possibly be. We don't let the industry issues affect the creative process.
Let's go back to the beginning of your career and working on Licensed To Ill and what you were trying to do sonically. How much fun did you have doing that record?
RR Yeah, it was very new territory then. There weren't even samplers yet, so we had tape loops going around the room, around mic stands, and programming was in the early days of 808s and drum machines. A lot of the programming was done on the fly, played by hand, or it'd be something where we'd play beat A and then stop it and play beat B and then stop it and then play beat A and then play a fill. It was more live. The way things are done today where tracks are created by taking a piece of music and repeating it over and over in ProTools, nothing could've been done like that. It had to be just based on the technology we had at that time. And because of that it sounds different than the way things sound now.
Yeah, it had a live sound and energy and an electricity that's hard to capture when you have a different way of making it.
RR Yeah, it was more of a performance, capturing a moment. That's how it was done even down to the mixing. We'd all stand over the console and each person would either man eight faders or mute buttons and we'd all learn as the song would go. It was almost like playing piano on the console. We'd rehearse the first verse and then the next piece of the song and then we'd try to get the whole thing as a song and break it up in pieces and try to get to the point of doing it all as one performance. There would be three or four of us at the console to be able to get through the song.
Can you talk about MCA, your friend Adam Yauch, who recently passed away?
RR Adam Yauch was…it's hard for me to talk about him because it's so emotional with him not being here. He's the first person from our immediate group to pass away and it's a bizarre feeling. He had the coolest voice and wrote the coolest rhymes and was probably the strongest torchbearer for the band throughout the creative process. After we didn't work together anymore he really carried the flag for the band and was the driving force for them.
Questlove says he doesn't love or hate music anymore. He just listens to what the person is doing, but he can't get superhigh or superlow about anything anymore. Do you still have that emotional attachment you had 20 years ago?
RR It's both things. I can still get emotionally attached and swept away, but there's another part of me with the producer hat on who's listening to how it's done and thinking what I'd do different or what I wish I would've thought of. You can listen with two different ears—the professional ears and the fan ears. And it happens very naturally, just going back and forth. But it's a really nice feeling to just get taken away as a fan. And just hear something that's like, Wow, how cool is that?
Can you tell me something you heard that you were like, Wow, I wish I'd thought of that?
RR D'Angelo's Voodoo album. I don't think a better album's been made since then. That's as good as it gets.
Can you say how you've grown as a producer from those early NYU dorm days to now, as a legendary figure?
RR I would say it's different. It's still me inside, so the sensibility is similar. It's gone from a naïve, not really knowing what I'm doing energy to a still not knowing what I'm doing energy, but with a tremendous amount of experience. And with that experience comes wisdom, because each project I do I learn new stuff, every single time. But all that new stuff I've learned from doing a lot of albums, you learn a lot of ways. There's been a lot of examples in my life of when I hear a musical problem, or an issue with a song and I have a big Rolodex of options of things to try, whereas before it might've been more frustrating and hunting. Now I kinda have a better idea of how to fix the problem. I've also learned what's important and what's not… I know what things I fix will make a difference and what things are just my taste and no one else is gonna care.


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An accomplished astronaut flew three shuttle missions and logged more than 12 hours of spacewalk. Yet for 17 years, Rich Clifford, a handful of NASA officials and a Houston doctor were guarding a secret that made his triumphs all the more impressive.
An inspiring new 30 minute documentary that delves into the trials and tribulations 62-year-old Clifford faced as an astronaut secretly battling Parkinson's disease is about to be released. It explores his journey to go public with the disease and become a champion for Parkinson's research. It's called "The Astronaut's Secret."
"I said I've got to be a part of this," Houstonian Zach Jankovic said.
Jankovic is the documentary's director and producer.
"He had Parkinson's while flying his final mission in space. I said, 'That's incredible' and nobody knew about this," Jankovic said.
The project came to him by way of his father, Houston doctor Joseph Jankovic.
"Rich is a remarkable individual," Dr. Jankovic said.
Dr. Jankovic is the Houston neurologist who diagnosed Clifford in 1994, not long after his second shuttle mission. Through the years, Clifford and Dr. Jankovic became friends and that relationship was instrumental in Clifford's decision to share his story.
"Because his story is so intriguing and so inspiring, would he mind if I talked to my son about doing a documentary on his life story and he agreed," Dr. Jankovic said.
It would be a project three years in the making. Jankovic says getting Clifford on board was the easy part. He had to raise the $100,000 it took to make the film and in order to craft it, he had to rifle through mountains of old NASA astronaut training footage, some 600 hours.
Zach Jankovic said Clifford's story is doing more than just raising awareness about Parkinson's disease, its erasing stigmas, showing that in spite of what might seem like insurmountable odds. People with Parkinson's disease can shoot for the stars and accomplish extraordinary feats.
"I think it was really freeing for him to be able to go public. I think it was something really special for him to finally be able to talk about it," Zach Jankovic said. "I even thought I saw some tears in his eyes when the movie was over because he was able to reflect on his life and realize that his story has a meaning."
Clifford currently resides in South Carolina. A special screening of "The Astronaut's Secret" will be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Houston's Marque Stadium 23 & IMAX at 7600 Katy Freeway.
The Honorable & Mrs. George H.W. Bush are the honorary event chairs. Tickets are $50. The event benefits HAPS and Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Neurology.
Original source: www.click2houston.com/news/astronauts-space-secret-revealed-on-big-screen/25504902